Möbius

This is a humbling place to be Where I’m stripped of all pretensions Even the self-fabricated ones I use to placate myself Caught between confusion, chaos and nihilism Bitterness feels like it’s boring Numb beyond numb, but that’s only on the surface I have no hopes left but You, and by that I mean I’m […]

God is good?

Sometimes I think I’m insane for being a Christian. Time and again I fall for the devil’s oldest temptation: God is holding out on you. I believe it; I grab control of my life back from God; I do something that I think will make me happy; then I watch as my life implodes in […]

The Beautiful Game

Soccer and the U.S. have always had a less than passionate relationship. Not so for this American, though. I started playing soccer at age six in 1988, the age when games consist of a cluster of 15 or so tiny children following a ball on the ground like dingos fighting over a carcass. I came of age when […]

Calloused dragon heart

Ice impulse fire Can you feel any more? Is there bone for skin beneath the breath of this facade? Where is the purchase beyond mirror and smoke? Grace, soiled in fragmentation Sprout through this caked earth And blossom.

Where is hope?

When your life has come to an end, what do you want your legacy to be? I’ve been asking myself this a lot lately. My opening course in seminary focuses on understanding what it means to be “called” to vocations or situations in life, and the emphasis is on understanding the deepest desires of our […]

Perception, revisited

Tomorrow will mark the first birthday for this blog. I think this an opportune time to take a break from the series of posts discussing differences among Christianities and take another look at the foundational issue of this blog: perception. Psychologically speaking, what we perceive to be real is, for our psyches, legitimately real. It’s […]

The invisible, determinism, nihilism and Satan

Let’s break down the Nicene Creed and appropriate Scripture to the basics of what the Christian historically believes about the nature of reality. “I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible…” Well. Talk about bang for your buck; that’s a lot of information per […]